It has its own dedicated live breakfast show, hosted by Simon Beale, 6–10 am weekdays and 8 am – noon each Saturday.

The station broadcasts nationally on Digital One DAB and online alongside the existing Heart extra service.

[1] Like all of its Heart network sister channels, it is also broadcast via satellite on Astra 2G.

The surplus capacity vacated by this move was used the following day to add another sibling, Heart 90s in DAB+.

Heart 80s programming is produced and broadcast from the headquarters of Global at Leicester Square in central London.